Open range hood

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Tiling with range hood & open shelves?

Range hoods with chimneys are very popular in kitchens right now. More and more people consider themselves amateur chefs or “foodies” and they like professional cooking equipment. Ventilation for your stove is sometimes required by code — but how it looks is up to you!

A stainless steel range hood is mounted to gray glazed backsplash over a stainless steel oven range and between stacked oak floating shelves.

Last spring I finally got around to building my own DIY range hood to give an updated look to our kitchen, which has been a work-in-progress since we moved in 8 years ago. This post will walk you through the steps I did so you too can create your own custom DIY range hood for […]

Floating shelves around hood vent. And love the wood color.

Sunset Development Group on Instagram: "Do yourself a favor- check out our profile and follow us if you want great tips, love pretty stuff, and want to learn about cool building products. You see tons of beautifully made custom stove hoods and probably think - wow this is beautiful, but what do you do if there is an issue with the vent? The sad answer, is that most of the time, the hood needs to be destroyed to access the hardware it encases. Like a piggy bank ☹️. If you are building a…

Happy Memorial Day! Week Three of the One Room Challenge came and went so quickly! There were A LOT of things that went wrong this week, with the biggest being that I couldn't get into my blog. In fact, I couldn't even get it to load on my computer, tablet, or phone! I'd been having issues with it since I created it almost two years ago and finally got fed up enough that I switched from Wordpress to Wix (WHICH I LOVE) on Saturday. That meant I had to spend this weekend designing a new blog…

Kitchen design is getting more streamlined, which begs the question: how do people make no upper cabinets work? Could you live with this look? We discuss.

I honestly don’t know whether to call this a remodel, a renovation, a redesign, or what. I’m not even sure what qualifies a home project as a full-on renovation. I also have no idea when any of our desired projects will happen. For obvious safety precautions, we don’t plan on having any contractors in the home any time soon so…